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Originally Posted by John Stuart
But then again, when you think that decades before was possible to shot in colour, and to lower the costs many studios didn't used that benefit only because these TV sets were not largely used, you realize how stupid and narrow-minded this people are.
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That's a little unfair IMHO. At the end of the day, like it or not the TV studios are a business, and they were not going to spend unnecessary money incurring unnecessary costs on improving quality where hardly anyone, if at all, could actually enjoy the benefit, at that time. It seems 'short-sighted' now, but that's with the benefit of hindsight. You might as well say that it's 'narrow-minded' for movies to still be shot "only" on 35mm rather than full-blown 70mm, because in future we'll have 8K resolution in the home theater rather than the present 2K.
I agree it's a shame, but them's the breaks with technology. I often think the most 'famous last words' when it comes to tech are those of Bill Gates in relation to MS-DOS's cap on handling RAM, when he said something to the effect that no one was ever going to need more than 640K of RAM...
